Quotes About Failure

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

There are a few books I can recommend, but one you should read for sure is 'Do More Faster,' a book full of advice for young entrepreneurs. Looking back at the early days of Booking.com, I recognize a lot of things that feature in this the book - like 'fail fast, learn quickly.'

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

For a long time, I felt like I failed myself, my career, and my record company.

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

Without naming names, you can take some of the biggest artists of the last 25-30 years and point to those moments where they thought they were going to be movie stars, put the entire weight of a film on their back, and it failed. And some of them didn't recover from that.

I think it's about failure recovery and how you perform at a high level in front of a lot of people. I think that sets you up for success on the big stage.

For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important progress has been made and millions of lives have been saved, but millions more could be saved.

Whenever people think of the dot-com collapse, they think of a handful of companies that epitomized the era, and Pets.com... is always up there, right?

I don't know any successful entrepreneur that doesn't have at least a handful of stories about the things they did that went horribly wrong.

As much as you learn to handle failure, you must learn to handle success too, because that's also important.

Somewhere my dad gave up. He was really so successful at his level that after a point he could not handle failure.

To have your films not liked or not watched or failed, is not an easy thing to handle.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

I like to think I'm handy, but I failed at being handy many a time.

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.

It happens in football. You have bad days.

When you make something that you're really proud of, and it doesn't do well, you can live with it. The hard part is when you make something that you have to compromise on and it doesn't do well.

In this business, if you lose, you're gonna get fired. Now, if you win, you still may get fired. That's the hard part. You see guys having success and getting fired. That's really tough to watch.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.